Virtualisation

Commsworld offers simple virtual machine services on its own KVM-based virtualisation platform. When coupled with other services, such as VPLS and Ethernet based connectivity - Commsworld can remotely host a server VM which appears to be on a customer's LAN.

Features

No need to physically touch the host to set up new VMs (hosts can be remote in a highly resilient datacentre)

Commworld Fluency on-net customers can get full bandwidth for their VMs

Fully managed 'Infrastructure as a service'

Customer has full administrative control

Benefits

VMs can appear on the client LAN for ease of migration

VMs can be moved with no downtime, therefore maintenance can be carried out on hosts without impacting service

Legacy operating systems / applications can be migrated to VMs, mitigating the risk of old unsupported hardware failing